THE OCTOPUS FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£329k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£90k

Accounts grants total

£145k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The funder does not accept unsolicited applications. They state: 'We will be looking for new partners in mid-2027, more information about this will be available here at that time but do follow Octopus Group LinkedIn to be the first to hear updates.'

Summarised from octopusgroup.com/octopus-giving/ · octopusgroup.com/what-we-do/ on 16/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Economic/community Development/employment (3 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (2 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
Amateur Sport (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)
Animals (1 grantee)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
Education/training (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (2 grantees)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Scotland (1 grantee)
Throughout England (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Refettorio Felix	—	£45k
new	Fields in Trust	—	£45k
not listed	AidBox Community	£10k	—
not listed	Edinburgh Food Project	£10k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Refettorio Felix	FY2025	£45k	Unrestricted grant for charity partnership
Fields in Trust	FY2025	£45k	Unrestricted grant for charity partnership
AidBox Community	FY2024	£10k	Partnership grant from Seccl/Octopus Giving
Edinburgh Food Project	FY2024	£10k	Partnership grant from Seccl/Octopus Giving
Thames21	FY2022	£213k
GoodGym	FY2022	£213k

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 90000 vs reference 145287 (38.1% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.